The states argued that they can regulate carbon emissions as
a tailpipe pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
«Engine developers can use this information to validate computer models and design advanced engine combustion strategies that will improve fuel economy for consumers while also lowering
tailpipe pollutant emissions.»
They do not emit
tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).
Electric cars emit
no tailpipe pollutants.
Not exact matches
To cite one example, the heat - trapping carbon dioxide emitted from
tailpipes and factories collects over cities, creating CO2 «domes» that shroud the urban cores in toxic clouds of
pollutants.
Senator Tom Carper (DE), top Democrat on the panel, cited an interview in which Hartnett White suggested that low - level ozone, an air
pollutant, wasn't harmful unless «you put your mouth over the
tailpipe of a car for 8 hours every day.»
DETROIT — If you're driving a diesel - powered four - cylinder Volkswagen, you're stuck with a fun - to - drive machine that's belching unhealthy
pollutants from its
tailpipe.
But legally defining it as a
pollutant allows the EPA to e.g. use existing laws to regulate
tailpipe emissions.
«But legally defining it [CO2] as a
pollutant allows the EPA to e.g. use existing laws to regulate
tailpipe emissions.»
Technology has enormously reduced traditional
tailpipe emissions («criteria
pollutants,» including particulates, nitrogen oxides, ozone, sulfur dioxides, carbon monoxide and lead).
The emissions in urban areas are found to improve across all
pollutants and regions as the emission sources shift from million of
tailpipes to a small number of large power plants in less - populated areas.
And even better, none of the
pollutants are emitted from the
tailpipe — so they don't aggravate urban smog.
** Since the
Tailpipe Rule makes GHGs regulated air
pollutants, major stationary sources of GHGs are subject to PSD and BACT, EPA reasons.